Artist C.V.

Wambui Kamiru Collymore

Nairobi, Kenya

wambui.kamiru [at] gmail.com

www.wambuikamiru.wordpress.com

Artist, Director, The Art Space, Nairobi – Kenya.

Education

June 2008 MSc. African Studies University of Oxford, Oxford – UK

Exhibitions

Collaborative Projects

2013 – 2016 Who I Am, Who We Are: A Public Art Project about the Kenyan Identity, Nairobi, Kisumu, Isiolo, Lamu and Nyeri – Kenya (with Xavier Verhoest) www.whoweare.co.ke

Group Exhisbitions

2016 Your Name Betrays You, ErrorX, Ostrale, Dresden – Germany

2016 Harambee63, ErrorX, Ostrale, Dresden – Germany

2016 Harambee63, When Things Fall Apart, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, South Jutland – Denmark

2015 ForeCast, “Tree,” Goethe Institute, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 I Move Out. Tomorrow., Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 Suitcase Commodity Cash on Delivery (COD), Sarakasi Trust, British Institute of East Africa, GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 Your Name Betrays You, United States Embassy Residence, Nairobi, Kenya

2015 Harambee63, National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 Between A Rock And A…, CitiBank, Nairobi – Kenya

2014 Net, Kuona Trust Gallery, Nairobi – Kenya

2014 Coffee Conversations, Manjano, Village Market Gallery, Nairobi – Kenya

2011 Double Vision, Kifaru House and Karen Country Lodge, Nairobi – Kenya

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Your Name Betrays You, Kuona Trust Gallery, Nairobi – Kenya

2014 Harambee63, Wits University, Johannesburg – South Africa

2013 Harambee63, Kuona Trust Gallery, Nairobi – Kenya

Bibliography

Print Media

East African, December 18th 2015: A look in the mirror with the simple things right

Daily Nation, November 6th 2015: A new art gallery set to open up space for exposing African talent

East African, November 27th 2015: The Rev Howell prays as satire provides an answer

Business Daily, March 5th 2015: Challenging negative ethnicity through art

The Star, February 23rd 2015: “Your Name Betrays You” art show opens in Nairobi

Daily Nation, August 29th 2014: Timely call to re-invent the wheel of literary criticism

Business Daily, July 24th 2014: How Kenyan art has evolved from Independence

Daily Nation, June 22nd 2014: A question of identity: giving voice to diversity discourses

East African, April 11th 2014: Raucous jumble of joyous thuggery

Business Daily, April 10th 2014: Local scene full of new art, artists and alternative spaces

Daily Nation, September 28th 2013: African liberation struggle through the eyes of an artist

Daily Nation, September 13th 2013: Reliving Kenyan life before 1963 through a bar scene

Business Daily, September 12th 2013: Artist celebrates Kenya at 50 with conceptual art installation in a bar

The Star, September 11th 2013: The Ordinary Kenyan’s Role in African Revolutions

Africa Review, September 11th 2013: Revolution Brewed in a Seedy Kenyan Bar

Radio/TV

Monocle, November 4th 2015: The Art Space

KassTV, March 16th 2015: Your Name Betrays You

Ebru News, September 27th 2013: Harambee 63 by Wambui Kamiru

Lectures

2015 Who I Am, Who We Are: What is the Kenyan identity?, Somali Heritage Week, Kenya National Museum, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 Art and Social Activism, HAART Conference, Nairobi – Kenya

2015 African Contemporary Art: Women Artists in Africa, University of Wits, Johannesburg – South Africa

2014 Who I Am, Who We Are: Mapping the Kenyan Identity, Kenya Arts Fair 2014, Nairobi – Kenya.

2014 Toward an Inclusive Society, Who I Am, Who We Are, University of Nairobi, Nairobi – Kenya

Collections

Goethe Institute, Nairobi Kenya

Private Collection, Nairobi – Kenya

Private Collection, Bonn – Germany

Private Collection, Bern – Switzerland